Center for Biological Diversity: U.S. Government Fails to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles by Legal Deadline


Photo Credit: Coastal Resources Division

The U.S. government failed to meet its legal deadline Wednesday for issuing a final rule providing additional protections for loggerhead sea turtles, whose populations have faced severe declines over the past decade. The rule is required as a result of 2007 legal petitions by Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network urging the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service to change the status of North Pacific and northwest Atlantic loggerheads from “threatened” to the more protective “endangered” classification under the Endangered Species Act.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 4/5/2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: loggerhead sea turtle Turtles US government oceana center for biological diversity turtle island restoration network threatened endangered
 

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